How did you choose your screen name?
 

I'll go first.

I wasn't always SmartAZ, I used to be Wallstar. I didn't think about it, it was the first word that came to mind. It seemed like something I had seen every day.

Then it occurred to me that I didn't know exactly where I had seen it. I started looking for it.

It took a few days, but I finally found it. I was in the men's room at work. The screen in the urinal had the brand name Allstar. But from a certain angle, the reflection of the overhead light looked like a W in front of it, making it WAllstar. I had named myself after a urinal screen!

Back in the heyday of the Fido BBS, SmartAZ was the name of the board run by the Arizona chapter of Mensa. I never liked the board but I admired the name, so I swiped it.

You in AZ SmartAZ? That would make three of us is so. Whoohooo, lookout youse Pilly folks, we're coming up from behind you.

my name's jim, and i carry the "big wood" hence: lumberjim

big wood, huh? i just figured you were a big oaf who just sort of lumbered every where he went.

yeah, that's more accurate.

I started out with a login that incorporated my real name.

This was fine when access to The Cellar was via dialup modem. Upon reflection I decided it wasn't such a hot idea in the days of Google. (I can still read stuff I posted on Usenet from 1993.) So my current name honors a character from Bloom County, one of my favorite comic strips of all time.

Hint: Kenneth Rexroth

RL nick

Uh ... I'm English and this is an American board ...

kagen was a name i got back in my wiccan days, then i started using it for online games such as quake TF and starsiege tribes. in tribes i joined the clan [4o4] which made my name Kagen [4o4]. and its stuck ever since.

I read a book.

Prize if you can guess which one.

Where do I collect my prize?

Willing to travel?

My name is melida... I like dinosaurs... hence melidasaur.

plthijinx - pilot hi-jinx
big, ya know i've got the plane(s) so you can collect your prize if you choose!